From the LA Times:  “Britain’s Daily Telegraph — a conservative paper and that country’s bestselling broadsheet — diagnoses [America] as a nation depressed, and cites polling data describing alarming percentages of Americans who expect their own economic situation to deteriorate further and that of their children to be worse still. As Toby Harnden,...

The former sheik or elder Mohammed Sayed Tantawi who was the top cleric of the Egyptian Sunni Islamic theological institute, Al-Azhar, had died last week of cardiac arrest leaving a vacant spot for a new grand sheik to step up to.  Mohammed Sayed Tantawi was a very moderate and wise cleric who will be missed by many in the Islamic world. He had criticized Osama...